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Minimal Flavour Seesaw Models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v4

Abstract

We explore realizations of minimal flavour violation (MFV) for the lepton sector. We find that it can be realized within those seesaw models where a separation of the lepton number and lepton flavour violating scales can be achieved, such as type II and inverse seesaw models. We present in particular a simple implementation of the MFV hypothesis which differs in nature from those previously discussed. It allows to reconstruct the flavour structure of the model from the values of the light neutrino masses and mixing parameters, even in the presence of CP-violating phases. Experimentally reachable predictions for rare processes such as mu --> e gamma are given.

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@article{arxiv.0906.1461,
  title  = {Minimal Flavour Seesaw Models},
  author = {M. B. Gavela and T. Hambye and D. Hernandez and P. Hernandez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.1461},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Misprints corrected. A reference added. A subtle point in the reconstruction of the flavour parameters is clarified

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